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单词 purple sin
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purple sin
purple sin n. a grave or heinous sin.
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1601 R. Yarington Two Lamentable Trag. sig. K2 The blood of Iesus Christ hath power, To make my purple sinne as white as Snowe.
1658 J. Spencer Καινα και Παλαια 507 In thy Youth thou art not Cloath but Wooll; so that the deepest Purple sins are those which are died in the Wooll.
1850 R. Bell Ladder of Gold III. vi. i. 156 Let ruin come, I have plucked out the purple sin, and shown its hollowness to the world.
1905 H. A. Vachell Hill vii. 147 I never said bridge was a purple sin.
1987 A. Powell in Sunday Times (1997) (Nexis) 21 Sept. Striking how much Wilde himself accepted Victorian view of homosexuality as a ‘purple sin’, rather than physiological mutation.
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